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Redmine Plugin Extension and Development

By : Alex Bevilacqua
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Redmine Plugin Extension and Development

By: Alex Bevilacqua

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Redmine Plugin Extension and Development
Alex Bevilacqua
Mar, 2014 | 114 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Redmine Plugin Extension and Development
Redmine Plugin Extension and Development
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Redmine Plugins
Introduction to Redmine Plugins
An introduction to our sample plugin
Generating a new plugin
Diving into the initialization file
Summary
2
Extending Redmine Using Hooks
Extending Redmine Using Hooks
Understanding hooks
View hooks
Controller hooks
Model hooks
Helper hooks
A sample view hook implementation
Summary
3
Permissions and Security
Permissions and Security
Summarizing Redmine's permission system
Declaring custom permissions
Ensuring access restrictions in models, views, and controllers
Understanding custom content access control
Summary
4
Attaching Files to Models
Attaching Files to Models
Model preparation
Enabling attachments in our views
Controller modifications to accommodate attachments
Listing and managing attachments
Managing attachment permissions
Summary
5
Making Models Searchable
Making Models Searchable
Registering our plugin
Preparing our models to be searched
Configuring search options
Filtering search results using custom permissions
Including article content in the search
Summary
6
Interacting with the Activity Stream
Interacting with the Activity Stream
Overview of the activity stream
Preparing our model
Registering our model
Configuring an activity provider
Customizing activity entries
Summary
7
Managing Plugin Settings
Managing Plugin Settings
An overview of Redmine's global plugin settings
Enabling settings management
Configuration management
Exposing plugin methods to the settings partial
Accessing our settings
Summary
8
Testing Your Plugin
Testing Your Plugin
Testing infrastructure layout
Basics of test fixtures
Running tests
Writing functional tests
Writing integration tests
Writing unit tests
Preparing a test database
Continuous integration with Travis
Summary
Releasing Your Plugin
Releasing Your Plugin
Managing your plugin's source code
Starting a blog
Publishing your plugin on redmine.org
Announcing your plugin on redmine.org
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Alex Bevilacqua is an advocate for open standards, as well as a passionate and enthusiastic open source developer with over 10 years of experience. He is skilled in Ruby, Python, C#, Flash, Flex, JavaScript, and others.

He is the author of a number of Redmine extensions and plugins; two of the most popular being the Redmine Knowledgebase and the Redmine Dropbox Attachments plugin.

He currently works for a leading digital marketing company in Toronto where he works on process automation, data collection, and aggregation initiatives. His personal blog can be found at http://www.alexbevi.com.

I'd like to start by thanking my wife Sara for being patient with me throughout this process (which should not have taken nearly as long as it did). I'd also like to thank Jomin, Larissa, and Neha (from Packt Publishing), and Misha, Kevin, Petr, and Shamasis (my expert reviewers) for helping shape the book into what you now hold in your hands.

Finally, a huge thanks to Jean-Philippe Lang, Eric Davis, Jean-Baptiste Barth, and the rest of the Redmine core development team for creating such a wonderfully extensible product.

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